Posts Tagged ‘The Dillinger Escape Plan’

A decade is, especially in the music world, quite a long time, even if it does seem to just flash by and feel like just a month. Ten years ago, back in 2007, things were very different; MySpace was still the kingpin of social media, Bring Me The Horizon were dodging bottles whilst supporting Killswitch Engage night after night, and Give It A Name and Taste Of Chaos were still a thing.

Along with all the nostalgic memories, 2007 was also host to a plethora of great records, some being the first major step for a lot of bands towards the lofty heights of their career that they’re revelling in today.

Of course there are hundreds, but we filtered together 50 great albums that turn 10-years-old this year to remember those modern classics.

NOTE: These albums may bring intense levels and high frequencies of smiles, jumping, involuntary head nodding/banging and limb movements, and uncontrollable happiness.

Whilst in Poland as part of the European leg of their ‘Dissociation’ headline tour, New Jersey mathcore favourites The Dillinger Escape Plan have sadly been involved in a traffic collision. Whilst travelling from Warsaw to Krakow, a track rammed into the side of the band’s tour bus.

Donington’s Download Festival is known for being the premium rock and metal festival for the UK, and they’re certainly on track of maintaining that reputation for 2017. The organisers have just confirmed over 40 more bands to join the bill.

The latest names to join the festival bill include A Day To Remember, Steel Panther, Northlane, The King Blues, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Casey, Moose Blood, and more.

Kurt Cobain once said that “It’s better to burn out than to fade away”, and, whilst The Dillinger Escape Plan certainly aren’t burning out (if anything, they’re at their creative peak), they’re definitely not fading away. The New Jersey lot are doing one last round, and with a whole new album in ‘Dissociation’ too, offering one last chance for the fans to say goodbye before the extinguish the flame.

It’s been unquestionable that 2016 has been, if we’re going to put it very mildly, a whirlwind of a year across several areas of the world. What’s also just as unquestionable is how fantastic of a year it has been for new music and releases, with newborn classic after newborn classic hitting our inboxes and our ears far more often than we’re used to, and we’ve been absolutely loving it.

Consequently, it’s been pretty tough to pull our brains together, split the opinions, define our true loves and hates, but we’ve done it. So, here we have what we collectively feel have been the top 10 best albums to have come out across the past 12 months. If you haven’t heard any of these yet, get that sorted out. Immediately.

Despite dropping ‘New White Extremity’ just over a year ago, the first new material from post-hardcore legends Glassjaw since their 2011 EP ‘Coloring Book’, we’re still not really any closer to knowing when we’ll finally see a third full-length record and follow-up to 2002’s ‘Worship & Tribute’ from the New York outfit.

However, in a newly posted ‘100 Words Or Less’ podcast, The Dillinger Escape Plan sticksman Billy Rymer has confirmed that he’s tracked at least “a whole album’s worth of material”, including the already released ‘New White Extremity’.

Where do you begin to describe a band like The Dillinger Escape Plan? What started as an admittedly game changing, but ultimately describable, math-metal project has evolved into a five-headed progressive juggernaut that seamlessly blends technical metallic hardcore with jazz, industrial, electronica, and just about anything else that takes their collective fancy.

With the release of their final album ‘Dissociation’ and the band parting ways impending, New Jersey’s The Dillinger Escape Plan have just unveiled a stream of a brand new track, ‘Symptom Of Terminal Illness’, the latest cut from the record.

With the heart-breaking news earlier this year news of their final forthcoming LP ‘Dissociation’ and decision to disband, The Dillinger Escape Plan have now also confirmed the dates of their farewell UK tour (as part of a wider European run).

Set to take place in January 2017, the band will be hitting up eight venues up and down the country, with all the shows detailed below:

As a warm-up to their sets at Reading & Leeds Festival this bank holiday weekend, the soon-to-be-defunct raucous heavy hitters The Dillinger Escape Plan will be performing a super intimate set at London’s The Old Blue Last, which could be so destructive that it could see the venue standing no longer.

With plans to part ways after completing the tour cycle for their sixth and final album, ‘Dissociation’, this could be the final time the New Jersey outfit are experienced in a venue of this size, which holds a cap of just under 200.